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Using Gadgets Within Your Website Design |
Saturday, 13 March 2010
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There are many gadgets available now to either plug into your website during development or to use live when it is up and running. These include for instance:
Using these gadgets/ widgets can help to make your website very interactive for users. RSS feeds can feed into your website the latest news from all kinds of other websites such as the BBC. Twitter feeds allow your users to see your most recent tweets and this enables them to also follow you on Twitter. Video is a great visual and the simplest way to get it onto your site is to embed it through Youtube, all you have to do is upload it to Youtube and then place it onto your own website, the video can be anything like an introduction video or one featuring a product. Images work very well on a website so why not give them a big visual appeal by using a flash slideshow player. This way the images will play very much like a video but look ultra cool with customers able to select the images easily and interact with them. Shopping carts are obviously very important if you intend to sell products through your website. Services such as PayPal, Roman cart and Google checkout are offered to give you either a complete shopping cart to be integrated into your website or just buttons allowing users to click once and go straight through to checkout. They will take a fee from the final settlement but can be a more cost effective strategy if you are not intending to mass sell products. If you are selling products you also need a secure payment facility which is where again the likes of Google checkout and PayPal come in as they provide a secure payment process without the hassle. Gadgets and widgets work very nicely within a website and can add that much needed finishing touch as well as offering users fantastic site navigation. This can mean that users return to your site again and again, something we all crave. Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com |
Ian Spencer works for Clear Web Services, a SEO Web Optimisation and Web Design company serving the Forest Of Dean, Gloucestershire and South Wales.He has worked in the SEO and Internet Marketing world for many years, and working in partnership with another company has launched the new SEO business.
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